Press Release - The process to identify 93 bodies of suspected illegal miners retrieved from Buffelsfontein Gold Mine' shaft No. 11 between Tuesday, 03 December 2024 and Wednesday 15 January 2025, is ...

These individuals were among 93 suspected illegal miners, known as zama zamas, whose bodies were retrieved from the mine ...

After six months trapped underground, roughly 246 illegal miners were rescued at Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, ...

South Africa certainly had abundance. There were seemingly endless tracts of fertile farmland; rich seams of precious gold, ...

The organisations called on the portfolio committee to immediately exercise its legislative oversight functions.

A total of 78 bodies were recovered during a comprehensive four-day rescue operation from Monday, 13 January. Meanwhile, 246 ...

Gold built South Africa, and in no other country has it been pursued to greater depths. Thanks to the tremendous reserves of gold and diamonds beneath its surface, the land once considered “the least ...

Many mines are abandoned or liquidated without sufficient protection for rehabilitation funds, and the government does little to track or hold responsible parties accountable.

Rescue operations were deployed to the disused mine in Florida on Saturday after the desperate cries of trapped zama zamas were heard echoing from the shaft.

The South African government’s approach - “smoking out” miners and branding them as criminals - fails to address the root ...

With sixty bodies recovered from the Buffelsfontein mine so far ... Illegal miners and their associated bosses and handlers have damaged South Africa’s economy and made life hell for tens of thousands ...